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Take a signed 'long' instead of an 'unsigned long' for the number of pages to add/subtract to the total number of pages used by the MMU. This fixes a zero-extension bug on 32-bit kernels that effectively corrupts the per-cpu counter used by the shrinker. Per-cpu counters take a signed 64-bit value on both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels, whereas kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages() takes an unsigned long and thus an unsigned 32-bit value on 32-bit kernels. As a result, the value used to adjust the per-cpu counter is zero-extended (unsigned -> signed), not sign-extended (signed -> signed), and so KVM's intended -1 gets morphed to 4294967295 and effectively corrupts the counter. This was found by a staggering amount of sheer dumb luck when running kvm-unit-tests on a 32-bit KVM build. The shrinker just happened to kick in while running tests and do_shrink_slab() logged an error about trying to free a negative number of objects. The truly lucky part is that the kernel just happened to be a slightly stale build, as the shrinker no longer yells about negative objects as of commit |
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Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.